At the time of Christ lived a man who indulged sin of every kind. Born the bastard child of a Roman prostitute in Jerusalem, his was a life of debauchery and cruelty. Still young, Longinus gambled aways his mother's meager earnings and struck her when she complained, publicly declaring her a dog fit only for mounting. Sodden with wine he later raped her and bragged of the exploit to his equally depraved companions, asking "for who among you has had his pleasure with so comely a whore as my ripe mother?" He brawled with any who earned his ire, leaving a shopkeeper crippled and his own cousin bereft of a hand. It is said that there was nothing too wanton for the tastes of Longinus.

— History of the Lances Sanctum